The remakes are OK, but it doesn't prove anything to me. Like I said before, it's not about the hardware/software that makes a hot track. It's easy to deconstruct a beat and remake it, but Dilla was Dilla because of his imagination.
...we get too caught up on "what to use" when the principals of music are all the same if your composing on an MPC, FLStudio, Reason, or an acoustic guitar...good music is good music. Look how long it took to deconstruct Dillas genius on something that probably took him 15 minutes to compose. Crazy...
yeah FL, in my opinion is the best software to sample with...it doesnt have as many good stocks synths like reason but if you find vsts and samples you can make Fl into a crazy machine!!!